The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-16
Industrial Notes.

Sinker, Davis & Co. to-day ship ak boilers of
sixty horse power each to Galveston, Tex, and
a Touring mill of one hundred barrels per day
capacity to Atkinson, Neb.
Red wood shingles selling here at the same
price as pine shiEg les. The low rates on the
Transcontinental lines for east-bound freight
have caused the decline in price.
The Steel Pulley and Machine Works are
shipping eight of their HOSTS to Nashville.
Tenn, to be used by Adams 6 Whitsett in the
building OF the reservoir at that point
The two box factories as busy as ever
Last year they used in the manufacture of
boxes G, 000. 900 feet of lumber and this year
they expect to work up 10000 feet
Lumber dealers in this city have had very
prosperous year. almost without exception.
They report an increase over sales last year of
% to 80 per cent. and the outlook for. a big fall
trade is very f1attering.
The machinery at the new steel ral-mill be-
gins to run smoothly, and they turning out
ITO tons OF rails per day and expect to get up to
200 tons per day. Their pay rolls show that 354
men have employment at the mill.
The Terra Gotta works under the man
agement. give mployment to about fifty men.
and are receiving orders faster than they
can we'll fill them. Orders have recently been
received from several Eastern States
Wood & Smith, of this city. have sold out
their interest in the Moore-Titon Company at
Colum bus, Ind, and will give their whole at
tention hereafter to their works in this city.
They are operating the Carey cooper-morks.
The Central Chair Company will next month
run their works day and night. giving employ
mept of over five hundred This company
has immense trade in the North west and South,
and are three months behind with their orders.
The "C'' Springcart Company has decided to
remain in Indianapolis, and is preparing to work
double the present number of men. taking part
of the rooms that will be vacated by the Wood
burn-Sarven Wheel Company within a few
weeks.
The Carey cooper works are manufacturing
fifteen hundred whisky and wine barrels Ter
we in % furnishing kinQan ~
several hundred pork barrels. The whisky bar
rels go to dstlleries at Shelbyvie. Ind, Ham
ilton, O., and Peoria. Ill. The wine barrels 60
to Sandusky vineyards
Spiegel, Thorns g. Co. are now making special
feature of the manufacture of hat racks. ladies'
fancy desks and extension tables of neat and
novel designs, and are selling large per cent.
of these goods in New York and Pennsylvania.
They are also making some shipments TO points
in the New En- gland States.
Indianapolis still is unrivaled in the amount
of poultry handled. At no Western point
the shipments to Eastern markets as large, and
the industry is steadily growing. Shippers state
that this ysar the shipments will exceed those
of last pear fully Is per cent, and 1856 was the
best year ever known in the business
Starch manufacturers have ceased to cut
prices and there is marked improvement IN
the outlook for this class of business. With
this improyement an increase in production is
setting 10. The Indianapolis starch-works are
now daily working ND from 2. 500 to 5000 bush
els of corn, and in a few days will get up to A.
UUU Dusnels every IWenIy-Iour hours
The Eagle Machine works Company by the fsr
OF next month will start up business in all depart
ments as then their new and powerful engine
will be completed and they will have plenty of
power. Now they dependent wholly
portable engine. President Hasselman says that
when in full working order the establishment
will turn out double the work they did in the
old shops
With the failure of other crops there has been
a failure the egg crop. to speak, and
through the fall months eggs will be higher,
this year. it is thought than ever before in In
diana. For some weeks past the demand has
been so largely in excess of the receipts that
packers have been drawing on their cold-storage
packed eggs The stock in all the cold storage
houses here is not more than 2 500 cases, against
600 eight weeks ago. aud against 1000 cases at
the corresponding period in 1886.
Cincinnati men n day two ago were in the
city for the purpose of purchasing the old iron
rail mill, bat did not offer as much for the
property as the Indianapolis Rolling Mill Com
pany think IL worth and the sale was not per-
fected, but terms may yet be agreed upon.
There is some valuable machinery in the old
mill. Should nothing come Of the Cincinnati